The Untold Deviancy of British Spy Cops // PREVIEW
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We got them. |
| 0:02.0 | 9-11 airlines. |
| 0:04.0 | Asked for some but done it. |
| 0:06.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, |
| 0:10.0 | Popular Front presents |
| 0:12.0 | Big Terror. |
| 0:14.0 | This is a series focused on how governments all over the world |
| 0:18.0 | are using the threat of terrorism to devour your rights and |
| 0:21.9 | destroy your freedoms. Big Terror is a popular front original created by me Jake Hanrahan |
| 0:29.2 | and investigative journalist Ali Winston. Episode 3 The Devicy of British spy cops. |
| 0:40.2 | So I think the whole spy cops thing, it's very British in a sense, even though cops all over the world have been doing this, but it really kind of came to a head. |
| 0:58.3 | Really in Britain for like the most part, |
| 1:07.7 | when there was a scandal where basically a load of police in Britain were tasked with going undercover and infiltrating what was a burgeoning animal rights movement in the 2000s, |
| 1:14.6 | even before that as well, but a lot of it kind of came to a head then. And they spent years |
| 1:19.7 | undercover with these groups because the state felt like a lot of these animal rights groups |
| 1:25.0 | were quote-unquote terrorists. Some were doing militant activity. States going to label it that, of course, but someone. And the police |
| 1:33.6 | went way too far and essentially made a life with some of the people they were sent to monitor |
| 1:39.7 | still on the cover, still reporting back. more than one actually ended up having children with |
| 1:47.0 | one of the activists in this role and eventually, you know, was taken off the case, vanished, |
| 1:53.0 | and it all kind of came out. And to be fair, one of the officers actually went on the record, |
| 1:58.0 | you know, openly, no face, no censoring and said, yeah, I did this. And to be |
| 2:02.7 | honest, it was essentially a rape case because he was sleeping with people, having children with |
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